Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

WLS Evening Book Club

We came to Shelby Van Pelt’s Remarkably Bright Creatures for the octopus. But while the readers of the Wairarapa Library Service’s Evening…

Oct 2022

Arts & Culture

Spring Jazz Celebration Hits High Note

Martinborough’s annual jazz festival, held in the first weekend of Spring, was a sell out! “We had two ticketed shows and they…

Oct 2022

Arts & Culture

Mulled Wine Concert dates in Featherston & Masterton for 2023 season

HELEN WEBBY’S NIKAU HARP TRIO (Violin, Cello, Harp) Masterton Friday 10 February, 7.30- 8.45 pm (St Matthews College) CHAMBER MUSIC PIANO TRIO…

Oct 2022

Arts & Culture

Maree’s Musings

to COIN a PHRASE … Being both a writer and a fan of a decent chinwag, I suppose it’s not surprising that…

Oct 2022

Arts & Culture

Hammers & Horsehair with Rowena Simpson – Homecoming

This concert was originally scheduled for July, but Covid interfered with everyone’s plans, and it will now take place on 23 October.…

Oct 2022

Arts & Culture

Exhibitions at Aratoi

With Spring and the final school term just around the corner, Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History brings you stories of…

Oct 2022

Arts & Culture

Country Dog City dog

Oct 2022

Arts & Culture

Book review – Human kind

Historian Rutger Bregman’s studies have shown that right from the time of the ancient Greeks the great thinkers like Thucydides, Machiavelli, Hobbes,…

Oct 2022

Arts & Culture

Greytown Music Group – Saxcess Returns to Greytown

New Zealand’s premier saxophone quartet, Saxcess, began its concert life with a Sydney Opera House debut in 1992, and has been performing…

Sept 2022

Arts & Culture

Book review – Promises Promises

Author Claire Robinsons’ interest was piqued when she came across a collection of early election advertising in an archive. The collection covered…

Sept 2022

Arts & Culture

Library News

Conservation Week 5 – 11 September Support the Department of Conservation and celebrate nature by participating in fun activities throughout the week.…

Sept 2022

Arts & Culture

Maree’s Musings

A USEFUL EXERCISE I’m sure that those of you who actually remember who I am, will also recall seeing me walking every…

Sept 2022

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